very good answer Jhaver, Abestos is outlawed mostly everywhere, yet products in china and some other countries, seem to not have very good regulation and asbestos seems to appear in cheaply made products, and products where quality control is not very good. just done a quick google search and have c...

i have done some research, the Ballina did its last job a few weeks ago in Port Alma, and headed down to Brisbane, she is no longer working or based in Bundaberg now. she is currently laid up in Brisbane and on the 30th October she had her LR class declassed, oh did not mention that she is up for sa...

its a shame to see the sister tugs London and possibly Rotterdam sold for scrap though. :( It seems the two sister tugs have better value as metal then as deep sea tugs. But i see many deep sea tugs are in fact anchor-handlers, so when they have no long distance towing jobs they can be chartered out...

hi henk, i was doing some reasearch and the Salvage company Tsavliris has mangement over the Global Sucess. i have an article from their website. http://www.tsavliris.com/news_details.php?division=salvage%20and%20towage%20services&record=113 hopefully the Former Svitzer tug will stay away from the b...

Updated 26-06-2013: LONDON/SMITWIJS LONDON Hi Henk and All. i have read in the Tugs Towing and Offshore Newsletter By Hans, It was reported that one of the strongest Ocean Going Salvage tugs the Global Change, former Svitzer salvage tug London was beached and scrapped 25th June, in India. it is ver...

getting close to a year and it is still moored up at ASL shipyard Singapore.
the shipyard maybe very busy or maybe there money problems?
strange to see a New tug waiting around having not entered service yet.

i have been reading around that the gms company is a ship scrapping company, is it possible the london and rotterdam will be used as tugs to tow scrap ships to the breaking yards. people are saying they are going to be scrapped after they do a tow from africa to india. but what i dont understand is ...

Here are some pics of the tug Ballina tied up at the port terminal berth. the crew are on board standing by as floods damage the berth where she normally is. The Burnett river in Bundaberg Queensland Australia is flooding with three lives lost as of today. it is the biggest flood in history the rive...

ok thanks for the info guys. i see Damen has better build quality and better quality control, i have noticed a lot of damen tugs have been coming from their Changde yard and other chinese yards, i dont know why svitzer did not approach Damen and order a stack of tugs from them instead of getting chi...

i wonder why they cancelled orders. ( money problems, not needed )?? what would happen if a company cancelled a order say, mid construction. :?: would they have a deposit down? Cause i have seen pics of tugs that were canceled orders, that went up for sale by the shipyard. :shock: anyway thanks agai...

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